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Dystopias Now | Commune
Until we build a world that works for everyone, we’ll continue to have people whose survival is systematically erased by those in power. That’s the dystopia for the rich and powerful: a world where the rest of us finally realize the power we had all along to fight for a justice-focused society.
Eric Holthaus • Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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In Chalmers’s vision, we would, as Arendt feared, be trapped in a situation wherein we would encounter nothing but ourselves and those things some of us have made. And it would be altogether likely that we would do so while swaths of our common world increasingly became inhospitable to human life. If so, the burden will fall, as it always does, on ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
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The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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The story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what is done with the world we do have, both in terms of the structures of human societies and the non-human world within which they are rooted. Put another way, we might say that imagining the digital s... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Thresholds of Artificiality
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